ALGIERS, Jan 8 (Saba) - Two people died in the riots erupting across the country since Thursday, Interior Minister Daho Ould Kablia said Saturday.

Algerian News Agency quouted Kablia as saying: "The first dead is a young man, shot dead when he tried to intrude into a police station in Ain Lahdjel locality, in the province of M'sila (248km south of Algiers)."

"While another man died in hospital in Bousmail city in Tipasa," he said, adding that "the conditions of his death remain unclear."

"Acts of violence have also made 320 casualties among security forces, including police and the National Gendarmerie, and less than a hundred among young people," the minister added.Saba